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Health Care Professionals Practicing Via Telehealth
The Veterans Affairs Department published this final rule in the Federal Register on October 2, 2025. It took effect on November 3, 2025.
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What the agency says
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adopts as final, with changes, a proposed rule to amend its medical regulations that govern VA's health care professionals who practice health care via telehealth. This final rule implements the authorities of the VA MISSION Act of 2018 and the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. This final rule enables VA to maximize health care resource utilization and provide safe and convenient national health care to veterans using telehealth. It also strengthens VA's role in supporting national and State responses to war, terrorism, national emergencies and natural disasters.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-19324
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Veterans Affairs Department
- Published
- October 2, 2025
- Takes effect
- November 3, 2025
- Dates
- This rule is effective November 3, 2025.
- Docket
- Docket No. VA-2022-VHA-0020
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 2900-AQ59
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 38 CFR 17
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Alcohol abuse; Alcoholism; Claims; Day care; Dental health; Drug abuse; Foreign relations; Government contracts; Grant programs-health; Grant programs-veterans; Health care; Health facilities; Health professions; Health records; Homeless; Medical and dental schools; Medical devices; Medical research; Mental health programs; Nursing homes; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Scholarships and fellowships; Travel and transportation expenses; Veterans
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 10
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